From March 7-10 in Atlanta, GA, advocates, researchers and other representatives from the healthcare industry will meet to discuss the latest in women’s sexual health at the Joint International Society for the Study of Women's Sexual Health (ISSWSH) and International Society for Sexual Medicine (ISSM) Meeting. This year, several presentations will focus on the significant [...]
Health Decisions recognizes the importance of increasing the participation of women in clinical trials in order to identify differences in female response, provide female-specific prescribing information and reduce the number of adverse events experienced by women taking approved medications. Based on Health Decisions' extensive experience as a women's health specialty CRO, Project Manager Jessica Kappes, [...]
The Health Decisions team attending ACOG 2018 - the Annual Clinical and Scientific Meeting in Austin April 27-30 - had a busy, enjoyable and productive week with our colleagues in the OB/GYN community. In keeping with its mission as a women's health specialty CRO, Health Decisions sponsored and participated in the 5K Run/Walk for Women. [...]
March is Endometriosis Awareness Month, a reminder of the importance of ensuring that clinical development of novel endometriosis treatments progresses as rapidly as possible. This is an area of significant unmet medical need affecting approximately 10% of women of reproductive age worldwide – approximately 176 million women. While sometimes asymptomatic, endometriosis is often associated with infertility [...]
Health Decisions is hosting a complimentary webinar, "Critical Success Factors in Reproductive Health Studies: Practical Tips for Minimizing Timelines, Risk and Costs." The webinar will be held January 24, 2018. Reproductive health developers are invited to register for the complimentary webinar. The webinar will address the challenges of conducting reproductive health studies efficiently while also [...]
IVD developers sometimes find it surprising that it is not enough to demonstrate the analytic validity of a test - the ability of the test to determine whether what it is designed to detect is present or absent. IVD developers may expect existing scientific knowledge and a series of informed inferences to connect the dots [...]
International Clinical Trials Day takes place each year on May 20, commemorating the day in 1747 on which James Lind started his controlled trial of scurvy treatments. Health Decisions marked the day internally by celebrating our own project managers, clinical trial leads, clinical research associates, in-house clinical research associates, clinical trial assistants, biostatisticians and other [...]
May 20 is International Clinical Trials Day, an occasion for honoring clinical trials professionals. The limits of sample size prevent clinical trials from answering all questions about the effects of new medical products in broad populations. However, clinical research professionals ensure that we learn as much as possible while also limiting patient exposure to investigational [...]
